(Singing:)  "Open Our Eyes, Lord, We Want To See Jesus . . . "

Lift your hand to the Lord with me just a moment.

We worship You, O Lord.  Great and mighty is Your Name.  You are high and lifted up.  Glory, glory.  Wonderful, wonderful is our God.  Holy is His Name.  We exalt You, oh King.  We bless You.  Hallelujah.  (Tongues)  Worthy. Worthy.  Worthy, worthy is the Lord.

Halleujah.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  (Tongues)  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Worthy, worthy is the Lamb.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah . . .  Thank You, Lord.

Wonderful is Your Presence.  Wonderful is Your peace.  Hallelujah.  Worthy is the Lord.

Now, everybody that will, let's give the Lord a handclap of praise.  Hallelujah.  Praise the Lord.  

Remain standing, if you will.

We're going to turn to the Book of Hebrews.  Hebrews, chapter 8.  We're going to begin reading at verse 1.

While you're turning there, we want to welcome all of you who are streaming over the Internet.  We are having a tremendous, unprecedented flood of people who want to stream our services.


All right.  Hebrews, chapter 8.

Also, Brother Paul Keith Davis and Brother Bobby Conner will be speaking tomorrow night in Jerusalem, and Thursday night, at the Hyatt Hotel - formally, the Hyatt - right around the corner from our apartment in Jerusalem.  

Many of the believers have been invited.  Pray that God will do something special in Jerusalem.  We can't be there, but we can sure pray that God will have His way.

1.  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2.  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

I want to read those two verses again.

1.  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2.  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Father, we thank You tonight that You have blessed us with strength and help and peace.  We thank You for the power of God that has helped us physically and spiritually.  Your provision that You have made for us, we thank You for it.

We thank You that You've allowed us again to be gathered together in Your Name.  We pray that You will speak to us now from Your Word, that You'd bind the enemy who would seek to distract us, to hinder us from learning, from receiving, from growing up into the full knowledge of the Messiah that flows from the Throne.

We pray, Lord, that there will be an impartation by Your Spirit from Your Word into us before we leave this place.  BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we pray.  Amen.  The Church said, "Amen."

You may be seated.

This is for you.  This is not for my health.  It's not because I don't have anything I could be doing.  But it's for you.  And it's up to you whether or not you use it, whether or not you listen to it, whether or not you try to apply it to your life.

The Word of the Lord that was given here on Saturday night and Sunday wasn't to upset you, or to increase your struggle.  And if that was the result, you missed something.  And so for just a few dollars you can go back and hear it again.  Because I guarantee you, if your struggle increased, you didn't receive revelation.  Because the revelation that the Lord was giving was to put you at ease.

Now, we all struggle because . . .  It's funny, and I hope no one takes offense to this.  First of all, we worry about knowing the will of God.  And now we have something else to be concerned about, and that is - what we do when we know it.

Shall I just suggest to you in love that you should perhaps get the cart and the horse in the right order and don't allow the enemy to even let you wonder about how you're going to respond until you get instructions.

I think if there's any struggle yet before the perfect plan of God is revealed in your life, it's because mentally you're trying to anticipate what it is.  You're trying to anticipate what is going to be revealed.  And your flesh automatically says, "But I know what it'll be.  It'll be the very thing that I don't want to do."

So you're, you're . . .  If you allow the enemy to do that to you, you're unnecessarily worrying over something that has yet to happen.  And the flesh that you're dealing with now . . . you're going to have a great power to overcome all of that.

And so you first need to spend some time before the Throne.  And I believe that's what everybody's doing, desiring to do, wanting to do.  And some of you are already doing it.

Then let God reveal His perfect will and then see what your reaction is.  But can I tell you, you're going to do God's will, so why worry?  Why struggle and let the enemy, you know, even bother you about it?  Because one way or the other . . .  You're the elect of God.  You are going to do God's will.  

Somebody said, "What about all those people in the Bible that missed the will of God?  Is there not a possibility that I can miss the will of God?"  Nine times out of ten, if a predestinated seed of God misses the will of God, it's because the instruction wasn't clear enough for them.  Because it is our desire, when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Message of the Hour and the revelation of the Word, we want to do God's will.  

And so, please quit trying to . . .  If you are.  Perhaps you're not.  But don't try to second guess or figure out what God may be asking you to do.  He may be . . .  He might ask you to do what you're doing with a different attitude.  It may not be travel the nations with a suitcase.

But regardless of what it is, it's not going to be for an eternity anyway.  It's going to be a quick, short work that God is doing.  And when you get caught up into that stature of a perfect man, you'll just be surprised what your reaction is going to be.

So the key is we're not sitting with Christ in His Throne if we're still struggling.  So we're getting there.  We've got to keep working on yielding - not working on working, working on yielding.  Can you say, "Amen"?  

All right.  I find this to be a very interesting verse of Scripture.  

1.  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum:

Now there are several ways to interpret Hebrews 8:1, the first phrase.  We can go all the way back to Hebrews 1 and we can read everything that the apostle has already said in the first seven chapters of the Book of Hebrews.  And it's a lot.  It's a mouthful - a lot to chew on, a lot to dig into.

Or we can also assume that perhaps he wasn't just referring to what He'd already spoken about in the letter to the Hebrews but of all the things that he had spoken to all believers, of all the epistles that he had written, of every message that he had shared, every word of exhortation, every sermon, every time he stopped to encourage a brother, every time he dictated a letter.

Everything that he had presented thus far as a part of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is now saying, "Of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: . . . "

We're not talking about summation.  This is not a summary - this is a sum.  There is a difference, although the root word is similar.  There is a difference between a summary of it and a sum.

The word "sum" goes beyond the summary and it tells us, "This is the answer."  The sum is the answer to the equation.  The answer generally comes at the end of the equation if you're not solving for the unknown.

Let's say we are not solving for the unknown, but we are looking for the answer to the equation 1 plus 1 = 2.  Two is the sum.  When you add all that you've got to add over here to all that you've got to add over here, you now have the sum.

That is important because Paul has said some powerful things already, important things already, in the Book of Hebrews.  And now he's saying, "Of all that we have said thus far, this is the sum."

Now that needs to send a red flag up the flag pole of your mind.  And you need to pause and stop what you're doing and think about what he is saying.  "The answer of everything, the sum of everything that we have said thus far, is this . . . , equals . . ."

In your mind you now need to see an "= " mark, the equal sign, and know that the answer is about to come.  What answer?  (I'm going to shut up in a minute.)  What answer?  The answer to all things that we have spoken.  And here it is.

1.  . . . We have such an high priest . . .

That's good.  But we didn't know how good.  Paul says that is so good, it's the sum of all that has been spoken.  It is the emphasis of everything that you need to know.  "The most important thing that I could share with you today," Paul said, "is we have an High Priest . . . " - someone pleading our cause before the Father.

When you don't feel like anybody knows the seriousness of your situation, when you don't feel like anybody understands what you're going through or how you feel . . .  Perhaps Sister Pam might even think, "I've been sick before and nobody realizes . . ."

I doubt this crossed her mind, but if it had . . .  Because it crossed my mind when my wife said, "She is so sick."  And perhaps it would cross your mind - "Nobody really realizes how sick I am."

And sometimes it takes a visual aid.  Oh, I said, "I saw her neck - her throat, her tonsils and glands so swollen that they were bulging out of her throat - and I realized how sick she was."

We feel like sometimes - "Nobody really knows how I feel.  I can't express it.  So therefore nobody is really praying like they need to or interceding like I would like for them to do that."

Listen, brother, sister.  "The sum of all that has been spoken thus far is this - we have a High Priest . . ." (hallelujah) . . . somebody who understands, somebody who knows what we're going through, somebody who knows how sick we are, somebody who understands how tormented our minds get, someone who walked in a fleshly body just like you and I live in every day so that He could be touched with the feelings of our infirmities.

He knows what it means to come and have the Spirit of God in you and your flesh in constant turmoil with what lives inside of you - the body that carries your inner man always in conflict with the inner man, the outer man and the inner man, the flesh in enmity against the spirit and soul of man, always.

And our Lord knows exactly how that feels.

Somebody said, "He couldn't.  He didn't sin."  If that's all you got out of the Scripture, you need to read that verse again.  "He was tempted in like manner, or in all manner, as we are, yet without sin."

He was tempted to have a bad thought.  He was tempted to say something He shouldn't say.  He was tempted to have a relationship that He shouldn't have.  That's what's so glorious.  

The glorious thing is . . .   "The Da Vinci Code" is a figment of somebody's imagination.  He was tempted to leave this heavenly destiny given to Him of the Father.  He might have been tempted to take a wife.  He might have been tempted to have children.  He might have been tempted to have a relationship with Mary Magdalene.  But that's what makes this so wonderful.

The Da Vinci Code was somebody's imagination.  However, it may be based loosely on how our Lord could have been tempted - hey, if you take the Bible literally, how He was tempted.

All manner, how ever a man could be tempted . . .  In all ways that a man could be tempted to leave . . .  Hallelujah.  In all the ways that a man could be tempted to leave his destiny, in all the ways that a man could be tempted to follow the wrong road . . . all those ways He was tempted, yet without sin - the supreme example of the Spirit of an overcomer - the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah.

And the sum of everything we're going through - every trial, every heartache, every ache, every pain, every emotional breakdown, every financial difficulty - everything, all of it, every bit of it, every bit of it . . .  the sum of everything is, "We have a High Priest who was tempted in all manner as we are, yet He did not sin."  

And now the very Spirit of an overcomer that was in Him is in us by the Holy Ghost.  If He overcame . . .  He said, "Little children, I have overcome the world.  And if I have overcome the world, you can overcome the world.

How can you and I overcome?  Because of Him.  And the Apostle thought this was so important that he said, "This is the sum of all that has been spoken thus far."

1.  . . . We have such an high priest, who is set . . .

There is a different implication to the word "set."  He is not "sitting" as though at any time He can pop up and run around and come back and sit down - "s-i-t."  He is "set."

There's a difference.  There's a difference.  He's "set."  He is positionally and strategically placed somewhere - not by accident, not by chance, not by the fact that His feet were tired and He needed somewhere to sit down, so He sat down next to the right hand of the Father, the Throne of Majesty in the heavens, because He was tired and He needed a chair and it looked like a comfortable chair, so He sat down, and His feet are rested now, so He'll get up and continue walking.

That's not what this Scripture is saying to us at all.  It is saying, "We have such an High Priest who is positionally, strategically placed in a position where He can do what He has been called to do.  And that is to be a Mediator and an Intercessor for you and I."

He's not placed somewhere else.  He's placed right in a position where He can fix what needs to be fixed.

All right.  And where is that?  It's not Alabama.  It's not New York City.  It's not even Jerusalem.  But He is strategically and positionally placed on the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens.

He is now positioned where all majesty emanates from.  All glory comes from this place.  All majesty comes from this place.  All sovereignty comes from this place.  It is the purest demonstration of the power and authority of the great "I Am."  It is His Throne.

He is not sitting on His footstool, the earth.  He is "set" on the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in heavens.  

Now, we need to understand, as we all do, by the Holy Ghost, He's in us.  "Where is the Lord Jesus?"  In us.

You know, it's funny.  This is very confusing for children.  "Oh, Father in heaven . . ."

"Daddy, I thought you said Jesus was in our heart."

"Well, He is.  He's everywhere."

That does for a little while.  But it doesn't always do.  You have to think of something else.  I tell you, this parenting is hard work.  Because you've got to think of how to explain it in a way they can get some kind of grasp.

You know, it takes the Holy Spirit in your life, it takes the atmosphere of the Holy Spirit in your home . . .  Because we don't go to college to learn how to put these things in our children.

Did you know there are people out there who are going to school to learn how to influence your children.  There are people going to college to learn how to influence your children.  And they write scripts for cartoons, for movies, for educational programs, for entertainment.  And they study, they survey, they learn and they find out the best way to put their opinion, their position, what they're interested in into your children.

That's why they're writing books like "Tommy Has Two Daddies" and "Sally Has Two Mommies" and all this kind of garbage.  Because they want to make your children to accept what they think is morality, or not morality, or normal, or whatever the . . . you know, what really is right.

Not extreme right, not necessarily extreme left, but you know, we just want them to be tolerant and accepting.  So we really need the help of the Holy Spirit.  We didn't go to college to learn how.  But if we're in the Spirit, we can teach our children by the Spirit to guard themselves against these subtle influences and, unfortunately, not so subtle influences of the world and society around them.  Amen?

Oh, you just have to watch.  I preached years ago . . .  Disney, I tell you . . . they're geniuses because they can take the most innocent story and fill it full of their agenda.  And you're just looking at it, and it's just an old innocent story that you've been told all your life - no harm, nothing . . .

One of the first things that I really recognized was the little children's story, "The Lion King."  Well, it's a precious little story - about a son lion who grew up taking his father's destiny, becoming like his father, to lead the tribe.  

It could have been a nice story.  But these people who study and know how, they learn how to put all the little things they wanted to put in.  

And did you know that most of the time it's like cursing, it's like foul language.  Most of the time you could take every foul word out of something and not miss anything.  It's like cursing in a conversation.  You can take all the ugly words out - you still got a conversation.

Well.  A lot of people know how to still have a conversation without cursing.  They put all that in the movie . . .  You know why they put it in movies?  To make 'em more real.  That's what they say.  "If we don't put in that rough language, then it's not real, we're not making it real, because that's real life."  And they're assuming that that's everybody's real life.  

But it's not everybody's real life.  We need the Holy Ghost.  We need the Spirit of God to help us be able to influence our children because the world wants to do it.

We have an High Priest who has lived as we live, who has suffered as we suffered, and greater.  And He is now positioned in a place where He can make the biggest difference.  He is with us spiritually, in the Spirit, inside.  But He is positioned at the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens.

Somebody said, "Tell me what that means."  It means exactly what the Lord Jesus said.  And two thousand years later, Brother Branham takes this one verse of Scripture and makes it live for a whole generation of people.  

I don't know how Jesus looked when He said it, but when Brother Branham said it, and I saw him say it, I believed it.  There's something about the real, genuine humility that was on Brother Branham when he was being interviewed in his home . . .  We've showed the film here.  

And they're asking him about these things.  And he says, "It's just like the Lord Jesus," and tilts his head.  He said, "I can do nothing except My Father in heaven shows Me."

I can do nothing of Myself.  "All authority that I have has been given to Me by My Father."  Do you believe that?  That's what Jesus was saying.  

And I can tell you exactly where this transfer of power took place.  It took place from the Throne.  The Bible teaches us in the New Testament . . .  And this is very hard for Oneness people to get.

But there is coming an hour that our Lord Jesus, who is the physical body . . .  He became the corporate body of God Almighty.  But there is coming an hour that all authority that has been given to Him, and all power and sovereignty and government and administration and all that was placed upon Him - the government is on His shoulders . . .  Isaiah prophesied it before it ever happened.

The Lord Jesus has . . . really, brother, He has all power, all authority.  But that authority flows through Him.  It flows from the Father who is the eternal Spirit of God.  It flows through Him and out of Him.

And the Bible tells us that one day the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, will surrender . . .  All the authority and all the glory, all the government and all the administration will one day go back to the One who had it in the beginning.

And who was that?  The Father, the eternal Spirit of God.  

"Why is that important?"  Well, I often wondered.  That was one thing that I really could not reconcile in Oneness theology.  But I have come and, over a period of time, grown into an understanding that it is exactly as God would have had it designed in the beginning.  And it is the truest expression of Oneness.

Shall I try?

There is a measure of division - a measure.  We're not talking about two persons.  We're talking about two expressions of the same Spirit.  The Holy Ghost is a third expression of the same Spirit.  

The Lord Jesus didn't have two Fathers.  And yet the Bible tells us Mary was overshadowed how?  Not by the Father, but how?  By the Holy Ghost.  So we know that the Holy Ghost is another expression of the same Spirit, the same essence of the Father.  

But when God chose to express Himself in this manner, there was a little bit . . . (let's just say it this way tonight) . . . a little bit of separation that took place.  It had to because the Father had no body.  He made a body and took His Spirit and placed His Spirit in that body.  

There's a little bit of separation.  This is why we hear the Lord Jesus communicating with His Father.  He is really communicating with the Spirit of His Father that lives inside of Him.  But it's manifested Biblically in another position.  

The Bible is a Book of symbols.  When our Lord Jesus was being baptized of John in the River Jordan, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him like a dove.  And there was a Voice that spoke from heaven.

How can this be?  If all of the Spirit of God was in Him, how is it that a Voice could manifest itself?  Because God is a Spirit.  And there was a separation of sorts that had to take place for Him to be able to take His Spirit and put it somewhere else in a grand and glorious deposit.  Wow.

And Jesus did the same thing for us on the Day of Pentecost - that same Spirit that was in Him.

Now if you find that difficult, if I've confused you, then let me ask you this question.

If this is not true, how will you ever be able to stand in the same room with the Lord Jesus?  Really, if we followed our theology all the way through, He and I could never be in the same room together - not physically.  Because His body, we understand, is the full expression of God.

"Then what's this living in me?"

Brother Branham said, "All the Father was, He emptied into the Son.  All the Son was, He poured in, or emptied into, the Church."

Did Jesus lose what He had to give us what He had?  No.  Is He an empty body somewhere, an empty vessel somewhere, devoid of the Spirit of God?  No.

But He put His Spirit in us.  And in order to be able to put all of His Spirit in all of us . . .

Somebody said, "That's the mystery of the trinity."  Hogwash.  It's not a mystery of a trinity, it's the most beautiful expression of Oneness I have ever known in my life.  And one of these days every little form of separation that has had to take place - when God took of His Spirit and placed it into the Messiah, when Messiah took of the Spirit that was in Him and placed it in His body - one of these days all of those expressions are coming back together.

And it's in that hour that the Lord Jesus says, "All right.  Here they are.  I brought them."  And He gives them to the Father.  Another Person?  No.  But the Spirit that's lived inside of Him in another expression.

Somebody said, "Why is this so important?"  It's very important because of Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21.  

Would you like to read it quickly?  I hope that's right.  I hope that's the right address.  I'm not good with addresses.  Can you pop it up there and let's see?

Oh, I like it when you look at me like I've lost it.  Yes.

21.  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne . . .

It's really going to look funny.  It's really going to look funny, isn't it, all of us sitting in each other's laps - Jesus on the bottom and all of us stacked on each other's lap.  

Oh, I hope we can learn to stand each other down here.  Do you think that's what it's saying?  It's not likely that we're going to be sitting in each other's laps all on the Throne, is it?  

21.  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne . . .

Notice, He didn't say . . .  He used "sit" instead of "set," but He says, "'in' My Throne."

21.  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

It's going to get really crowded now.  Because we've got the Father's knees on bottom, Jesus' knees on top, He is sitting on the Father's lap, and then all the Bride of all the ages are sitting on top of each other.

And the Throne must reach a million . . .  Instead of the table being a million miles long, the pile of believers on the Throne is going to be a million miles tall.

How many of you know that's not what he's talking about at all?  You're not going to sit physically on His lap in His Throne no more than He sits physically in His Father's lap, in His Father's Throne.

Because His Father is a Spirit.  And a Spirit has no knees, no thighs, no lap.  He is not physically sitting on His Father's physical lap.  He is the physical expression of the Father.

And He is sitting with His Father, meaning He has come to a position of power, authority and government with His Father.  

This is the truest expression of Oneness.  And He is calling us.  The very reason why I know there's not a physical trinity, three people making up the Godhead . . .

First of all, it's not an expression of Oneness.  And it is contrary to the relationship that is revealed in the New Testament between the believer and the Messiah.  

The relationship that the believer and the Messiah will come to is identical to the relationship that the Messiah has with His Father.  And that relationship is this.  They are of the same essence.  But the Son is merely an expression of that essence.  And you and I are becoming expressions of that essence.

Listen.  It would take a month to go through the Scriptures in the Old Testament where you are called into Christ - into Christ.  Into Him physically?  Or are we coming into a position where we share His authority, His government, the power that's in Him.  

The latter, not the former.  We're coming to a place . . .

Somebody said, "Well, where do we get something like this in simple terms in the Scripture or in the Message of the Hour?"

Didn't you understand that the Bride is going to rule and reign with the Messiah, judging the nations?

Do you think that means that everyone of you are going to sit behind little desks with gavels, and the nations are going to come up and you're going to pass judgment on the nations?

Absolutely not.  It no more means that than it means that we're all going to sit in His lap throughout all eternity.  It means we're going to come into the position that He has with the Father as the Judge of all nations - one with Him.

And it's bigger than a marriage.  Although really, in earthly terms, the marriage is the most serious relationship that we can have to express it.  But it's closer than a marriage.

It's really closer than a marriage.  Because a husband and wife can be one in mind and one in principle, and one in vision and one in desire, but they'll never be one in essence.  It's always going to be two spirits.  

But one of these days we lose all of this "us" business.  We surrender all of that and we lose all of that.  And we are seated together with Christ in His Throne as He is seated, or set, with His Father in His Throne.

And it's not about stacking each other up in laps.  It's about coming into one another, being of the one essence, the same Spirit.  It's bigger than we can touch tonight.

(It's fifteen minutes till nine.)  I didn't even mean to . . .  This is many lessons out there.

But I hope, even though I know everyone has not followed it completely through . . .  I hope that it will at least, if nothing else . . . it will help to show you the reason why the Holy Ghost said in Jerusalem, "I'm emphasizing the Throne."

The emphasis is being placed on the Throne.  There's something in the Throne that has to be revealed.  

For many years . . .  For instance, the Book of Revelation . . .  (I have to finish this part tonight.)  The word "throne" comes from the Greek word "thronos."  That's easy.  And it occurs more times in the Book of Revelation than in all the other New Testament books put together - the word "throne," "thronos" in the Greek.

It is used forty-six times in the Book of Revelation.  In twenty-two chapters, the word "throne" is used forty-six times.  In all the rest of the books of the New Testament, it's only used fifteen times.  

So in all four of the Gospels and in all of the Epistles, it's only used fifteen times.  But in the Book of the Revelation, it's used forty-six times.  

In Bible study, in Bible interpretation, there are some laws to help you study, to help you place things in perspective.  One of those rules that we learned is the Law of First Mention.  You've heard me mention the Law of First Mention before.  

And what that means is if you're studying a particular theme, you can't cover that theme thoroughly unless you go back into the Bible and find the first place that theme is mentioned.  

Then there's a law that . . .  I'll give you the layman's term for it because I'm more familiar with that, although I've heard the technical terms.  There is another rule or law and it's called the Law of Oft Mention, meaning how many times is a particular word or theme mentioned.  Because the more it's mentioned, the more emphasis is placed on that theme.

Somebody said, "Well, I'm a little nervous about that because men wrote the Bible."  

Oh, yes.  They were the scribes.  But the Bible clearly tells us that these men were moved on.  They received . . .

(That's another theme I'd like to talk about.)  They received the unction of the Holy One.  Do you know what that means - the Unction of the Holy One?  It means the exact anointing of the Messiah.  

They wrote in the unction, in the anointing, of the Savior, of the Messiah.  They were scribes.

Did you know the Bible tells us that we have an unction from the Holy One?  That means we should be moving in the anointing of the Messiah.

And what is the anointing, or what is the Spirit, of the Messiah?  It's an overcoming Spirit.  He said, "Because when I overcame, I was able to sit with My Father in His Throne.  And when you overcome, you're going to sit with Me in My Throne, even as I overcame and am set with my Father in His Throne."  

Got to overcome.  We've got to overcome.  We've got to overcome.

"Oh, what a battle.  Oh, what a war.  Oh, we've got to overcome.  How are we going to do it?  It's going to kill us all.  What a struggle.  Oh, Lord, we've got to overcome."

He struggled, He fought, He warred, so that He could overcome.  "And because I overcame," He said, "you can" - not by struggling, not by warring, not by fighting, but by resting in the completed work, in the finished work.

I have a revelation of the finished work of the Messiah.  And I didn't receive it in a book.  And I didn't receive it in a tape.

(I don't mean to be haughty.)  I received it before the Throne.  And whatever God truly reveals from His Throne works.  

I was reminded before the Throne . . . (this has not been spoken) . . . that redemption's work is over.  It is finished.  It is completed.  You will never be any more redeemed.  The only step of redemption that is ahead for you and I is the redemption of this [our bodies].

And we are not waiting on the purchase of this, we're not waiting for God to make a way for this to be redeemed, we're just waiting on the redemption that has already been purchased for this to be manifested.  Hallelujah.

It's already done.  It's already finished.  Potentially, even our body is redeemed.  

Well then, why hasn't it come?  Because we're coming right back to a revelation from the Scripture that talks about, "In the due season, in the right hour, in the right moment, in the right season, the body is going to be redeemed."  That's in the resurrection.

But I received a revelation before the Throne that the work of redemption for the inner man is a completed and finished work.  That means nothing you do, nothing you say, nothing you don't do, nothing you don't say can make you more redeemed.  

Can you become more like Christ?  Of course, we can.  But you cannot become more redeemed.  Why, we all knew that, didn't we?  

Erik, I'm going to talk to you.  I needed a little encouragement because . . .  I mean, I appreciate any contact that I have when I'm in Jerusalem, but it's few and far between.  And you . . . especially when God is really dealing with you as He dealt with me this last time.  

You know, we don't want to glorify the devil or flesh, but I struggled.  I struggled with depression.  I struggled with a lot of stuff, trying to receive this revelation and get it clear and grounded in the Bible.  And it wasn't an easy thing.

So one day after I had just . . .  So I was trying to be very careful about what I shared and what I didn't share.  And it's a struggle.  And you've got a hodge-podge of humanity sitting in front you.  You can have fifteen people and it still be a hodge-podge of humanity when you're in Jerusalem.

And so it's very, very difficult.  And we had as many as thirteen people streaming at one time in different nations.  And so just a lot . . .  And I really struggled.

And the first morning after, I just shared a little piece about the overcoming anointing of every age being gathered together into the last age.  And so, I did that.  I fought a real battle over something that we already knew.  But I fought a real battle over it.  

And so later that day, Brother Erik was on the Messenger.  And I thought, "Well, I'll just strike up . . . "  I'm not a real Messenger fan.  I like to use it when I want to use it, you know.  And you can't do that.  You've got to be a little flexible.

And I just struck up a little chat with him ? "How are you?  Praise God.  Hallelujah.  Glory.  What did you think about what I shared today?"

And of course he had no way of knowing what kind . . .   I didn't want him to say, "Oh, ohhhh."  (You can't say all of that over the Messenger, but . . .)  I didn't want him to say, "Whooooh, it blew my mind.  It was the greatest revelation I've ever heard.  You are the man of God for the hour."

I just wanted a little bit of validation that he got it.  And you know what he responded, the brother, the precious brother?  Do you know what he responded?  

He said, "It was good.  But didn't we already know that?"  

The gun was in my hand, loaded.  The trigger was pulled.  I'm almost pulled.  I'm waiting for something to encourage me out of how I feel, and he . . .  And he knew immediately when I didn't say anything back.  

So brother, was he typing then.  "Whooh, glory to God, praise God . . . "  You know, he got real excited then.  

Had he known then the fullness of what he is going through now . . .  He said to me yesterday, "I feel so much better."  (He's really been going through something himself.)  And he said, "I feel so much better after the preaching these last few preaching times.  It's helped me so much."

Had he have known, really, the fullness of what he was going to go through, then he might have thought that was a little more important.  

You see, it's easy for you to tell me, "I already knew that."  It's easy for me to say, "I already knew that."  But it's not what we can relate to when we hear it that we know.  It's what we're putting in action - that's what we know.  It's what we're positioning ourselves to receive - that's what we know.  

So it's easy to say, "I already knew that."  But I really got a Word that this work of redemption is really finished.  Jesus really knew what He was talking about when He said, "It's finished."

And I recognized that you and I, all we have to do to be partakers of it is receive it.  And the only way we can receive it is to believe it.  You've got to believe it before you can receive it.  And when you receive it, you've got to live in it, and walk in it, and obey it.  And that's not where the journey ends.

Repentance is where the journey begins.  But this journey is not about getting you more saved or more redeemed, or more filled with the Holy Ghost.  This journey is not about that at all.

And we know it, but we need to know it.  We know it, but we need to know it.  It's done.  That work is finished (amen) - no more Savior, not going to ever be any more . . .  Like we talked about here - you're never going to be any more saved, you're never going to be more worthy, than you are right now.  

You didn't do one thing to be worthy.  He did it all.  He did it all.  He deserves all the praise, all the honor and all the glory.

And He could have left you as a cowering, fearful servant.  He could have put you in a position of always kissing His feet, because we say we love Him and we want to be at His feet and we want to spend eternity at His feet.

You're not going to, by the way.  But you can have that desire if you like.  

Jesus has never been looking for anybody to kiss His feet.  He's never been looking for anybody to lay for eternity at His feet.  He's been looking for a companion in life - a bride, a friend.

I don't know how it is at your house, but my wife sleeps in the bed with me, not on the floor beside me.  There are times, when her belly is as big as mine, that we would have a lot more room if she didn't sleep beside me, but she does.  So we learn to position our bellies away from each other so that we don't bump, bounce . . . (anyway, you don't need to know that) . . . so that we don't bounce each other out of bed at night.

She doesn't spend much time at my feet.  She is my wife, my companion in life, the one I can share with and communicate with and fellowship with.  We're equals.  She is not my servant, but she serves me in love.

And you know what?  Sometimes I serve her in love.  And it never changes my position.  Sometimes she does something out of the way, an extra serving for me.  And sometimes I do something extra serving for her.

I am still the head of the house.  I am still the man.  I am still the breadwinner.  I'm still the one who pays the bills and bears the responsibility.  The majority of the discipline of the home, and so forth, falls on my shoulders.  But that's a relationship.  

Jesus came - not to redeem you as a servant so that you could spent eternity with your cheek on His foot.  He redeemed you as His Bride.  And He is not going to let you spend eternity . . .  You may want to, you may wish you could, but He was not looking for that.  

He said, "I call you no more servant.  For the servant knoweth not what the master does.  I call you friend - an equal, a counterpart."

How could that be possible?  Isn't it almost blasphemy?  Not when you understand that the same Spirit that was within Him is growing up in us.  We're going to spend eternity as a friend of God, as the Bride of Yeshua.

We're going to have an eternal relationship with Him.  And we're going to pour our love out on Him.  And we're going to pour our devotion out on Him.

But we are not going to be treated like the Cinderella of heaven.  We've been called to sit with Him, hallelujah, in His Throne as He has overcome and is set with His Father in His Throne.  

"If you read . . .  (Listen, I've got to close.  It's 9:01.)

Listen, people tell me all the time, "I'm scared of the Book of the Revelation.  I'm scared of it.  I don't read . . .  I read the Bible.  I love to read the Bible.  I don't read Revelation.  I don't read Daniel.  I'm scared of it."

I don't blame you.  If I read it like a novel, I'd be scared of it, too, I'd be afraid of it, too.  

Don't you know there's a hundred-pound hailstones going to fall from heaven and crack people on the head?  Don't you know that thousands times ten thousands of stinging beasts, hair like a woman and tail like a scorpion, are going to be loosed out of the pit to torment day and night?

The blood will flow to the horse's bridle.  Men will cry to the mountain to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of God.  And God won't hear their prayers.  

They'll seek death, and death will flee away from them.  No wonder it's a scary thing.  

And anti-Christ is going to come on the scene and deceive the nations.  And it's going to be the easiest thing that's ever been done in the history of mankind because, religiously, most of the world's already deceived.  They're already kissin' stones and prayin' to crosses.  And it won't be hard at all for him to come.

And he is going to present himself.  The word "anti-Christ" does not mean against Christ.  It means "another Christ."  He is going to come as another Christ, as another Messiah.  And people are going to be crazy about him.  And it sounds hard to believe.

But listen, we've already seen it.  The world's crazy about movie stars.  When the pope died, the world stopped.  The whole world stopped.  

It's just the pope.  The whole world is not Catholic.  Okay.  He was a good man perhaps in the sense that he wasn't a womanizer.  He wasn't this, he wasn't that.  He was holy in the sense that he prayed, perhaps separated in some way.  

I don't really know what his life was about.  But the world stopped.  I find it not hard to believe at all that the world will swallow the lie of an anti-Christ, especially when they recognize that he will be a religious leader as well as a political leader.

Terrible, mark of the beast . . .  Without taking the number of the beast, men will not be able to buy or sell or trade.  If they don't take that mark in their forehead or in their right hand, they'll have no access to the world commerce.  

The Bible said, "Men will cast their gold in the streets" - it will mean nothing.  Limbaugh and all this crowd that tells people to invest in gold because gold is the only sure commodity - that's a lie.  The Bible clearly tells us that the gold and silver will both be cast into the streets.  It's going to mean nothing one day.

"Are you telling me we shouldn't prepare for hard times?"  Yes, we should prepare for the same kind of hard times that people have had for centuries - getting old, so old you can't work and earn a living.  

But the Bride of Christ doesn't need to be storing up pickles in the basement so we can have pickles in the Tribulation.  That's not what God's calling us to busy ourselves with in this hour.  Come on.  

All these horrible, terrible, ungodly, sickening, scary things that are going to happen in the earth.  Do you believe it?  And that's what people are scared of in the Book of the Revelation.  

Do you find it a little bit out of balance?  Forty-six times alone in twenty-two chapters the Book of the Revelation speaks about the Throne.  In case you haven't noticed it, the Throne is not located in planet earth.  The Throne is located in the heavenlies.  

So if you go back and read the Book of the Revelation again, you will find out that more than two-thirds of the Book of the Revelation does not take place in the earth at all.  It takes place in the heavens.  

Over two-thirds of the Book of the Revelation is what is taking place in heaven.  Only one-third of what we read is taking place in the earth, meaning that there is more emphasis on the Throne in the Book of the Revelation than there is in the Tribulation.  Wow.

So what are people scared of?  You know what they need to do?  They need to get out of the earth and get up in the heavenlies.  Quit worrying about the earth.  Get your life right with God and get up in the heavenlies.

Somebody said, "How do you do that?"  Aren't we seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus tonight?  Isn't the world raging all around us?  Isn't the whole world going to hell in a hand-basket while we sit here and sing, "Amazing Grace"?  Yes.  

Isn't the world in a chaos?  Listen.  Now the very thing . . .  Thousands of young men have died trying to make Iraq a democracy.  And now we find that it's going to be civil war.  And we're going to have to stay there and help them with civil war.  Although nobody was there to help us when we had civil war.  

We've always been concerned about the Palestinians.  Guess what the next step in Palestine is?  Civil war.  Hamas and Fatah, all these different groups - they're all terrorists.  

Somebody said, "The people?"  No, the groups.  They all have terrorist ties - all of these political groups.  They're not about politics.  They're about pushing the agenda of the sons of Ishmael.  That's what it's about.

And now they're fighting one another.  Didn't you just read . . .?  They're assassinating . . .  The last two weeks they've been assassinating one another.  The Palestinians are killing one another.

One of two things could be happening - the biggest civil war in the history of the Middle East or God's Word fulfilled just like it was in the Old Testament when the enemies of Israel turned on themselves and slaughtered one another.  

One way or the other, God's going to have the victory in the Middle East if He has to cause them all to turn on one another and kill each other in the street.  I guess it's just showing you it can happen, anyway.  It really can happen.

Now . . . and I'm closing - maybe, after awhile.

If the emphasis in the Book of the Revelation is on the Throne, and you read the Book of the Revelation and you don't get that, you've missed the emphasis of the Book.  You've missed it.  

If you don't read the Book of . . .  And we don't because we read it in pieces and sermons from here - chapter here, chapter there.  But if you sit down and read Revelation 1 to Revelation 22, you will recognize there is more emphasis placed on what's going on in heaven than there is on what's going on in the earth.

How are you going to get out of earth when them 100-pound hailstones are going to be cracking people in the head and these locusts with hair like women are going to be stinging people with their scorpion tails?  How are you going to escape that?

You're going to escape that because you're not going to be living in earthly realms.  You're going to be living in heavenly places.

And how are you going to get to heavenly places?  Well, the easiest solution would be the Rapture.  But since we're not ready for a rapture, we'll have to think of something else.  

Biblically, we're not ready for a rapture.  It just ain't about to happen.  

Well, that's lovely news.  You should have thought about that before you bought that car you can't afford.  You should have thought about that before you bought that house you can't make the payment on.

Too many Christian people are doing business based on the assumption that they're going to be raptured out and the devil is going to pay their debts.  

You have the wrong assumption.  You ain't fixin' to go anywhere.  The world, Biblically, when we study . . . we are not about to be raptured out of this earth, especially in the next twenty-four hours.  

Nobody wants to hear that.  Because we, as dispensationalists, have placed all of our hope in the Escape.  

You'll get this.  You won't get it all tonight, but you'll get it.  I learned, when I was before the Throne, that the Church is looking for the wrong thing.  They're looking for an escape.

They need to be looking for something else.  We want to be escape artists.  God wants . . .  God is not calling you to be an End-time Houdini.  He's calling you to be what?  You tell me.  An overcomer.  An overcomer.

"Are you preaching there's no Rapture?"  Absolutely not.  That is not what I'm preaching.  But I am preaching that we're not fixing to have one.  Because the Bride of Jesus Christ is not going to be Houdinied out of here in the middle of the night, weak, sick, beggarly, whinin', complainin', strugglin', cryin', moanin', groanin', sickly, beat up, spending all her money at the doctor.  No.  Uh, uh.

You need the Scripture for that?  You need a quote for that?

The prophet of God to this generation said that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself is coming back for a Church that is exactly like the Church that was birthed or born on the Day of Pentecost - same signs, same wonders, same power, same miracles, everything that was in that early Church, including fellowship and depending on one another in fraternal affection, lending, not expecting it back, supporting one another.

If one's got a need, all has a need.  When we see somebody sick, instead of assuming that God's cursing them, we run to minister to them.

Instead of passing judgment and saying, "If they'd be more faithful to church, they wouldn't be sick" . . .  We're not called to treat one another that way.

We're called to take the anointing to heal the sick.  The Bible places it where?  In our hands.  The power to heal the sick has been given to us.  We're just not flowing completely and fully in it, but it's been given to us.

The power . . .  (Don't look at me like that.)  The power to heal the sick has been given to the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He heals the sick through us just like the Father did what He did through the Lord Jesus Christ.  "I can do nothing except it's revealed to Me from My Father."  That's what the Lord Jesus said.  It has to come from the Father.

That's why . . . that's why He was set.  That's why the sum of it all is that we have a High Priest who has been set (give me that verse again, please - Hebrews 8:1) - who has been set.  This is a hotbed of activity, the Throne.  Forty-six times, again, it's mentioned in the Book of Revelation.  

The Throne is where it's at.  The Throne is where it's happening.  If all you read . . .  I'm going to say it again.  I'm going to say it again.  I might even say it again.

If all you read in the Book of Revelation is about locusts with women's long hair and stinging scorpion tails and hundred-pound hailstones, you need to read the Book one more time.  Because the Throne is where it's happening.  

1.  Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: (the answer)  We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

Ooh, that's a good place to see what the Father's doing.  That's a good place to know what the Father wants done.  

Next verse, verse 2.

2. A minister of the sanctuary . . .

That's who the Lord Jesus is.  He is One who ministers from the Holy of Holies.  He's not ministering to us as He ministered in His earthly ministry.  His earthly ministry was a type of the Outer Court ministry.

It was powerful.  Wasn't it?  Yeah.  But it was a type of Outer Court ministry.  We have a minister now . . .  We have a Savior, we have a Messiah now, who is ministering to us from the Sanctuary, from the Holy of Holies - from the Holy of Holies.

And did you know that the Ark of the Covenant . . .  Did you hear me say this recently?  The Ark of the Covenant was fashioned after what Moses saw in heaven, and the Throne of God is what the Ark of the Covenant is designed after.  That's why it was called . . . in English, the lid was called a Mercy Seat because that's where Mercy sat.  It was a Throne.  

God's Throne in heaven was fashioned in the earth.  And that's where the Blood was put.  God's focus didn't just start being about the Throne, it always was.  It was in the Old Testament.  It was just called the Ark.  

It's not the Throne.  If you think I'm talking about a chair, if you think I'm talking about a box, I'm talking about a place.  I'm talking about a position.  I'm talking about a person.  I'm talking about a who.

I'm talking about where the right arm of the Lord is revealed.  I'm talking about where everything is going on right now.  I'm talking about where revelation comes from.

And listen to this as we close.

Oh, my, I love to preach like this.

2.  A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle . . .

Oh, that must be the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, because the Sanctuary is a type of the Holy of Holies so . . .

2.  . . . and of the true tabernacle . . . (which would have been the Mishkan, the one in the wilderness, Moses' tabernacle.)

Couldn't have been David's Tabernacle on Mount Zion.  Couldn't have been any . . .  It couldn't have been Solomon's Temple or Herod's Temple.  It must have been . . .  Oh, no, let's see ?

2. . . . which the Lord pitched, and not man.

Well, who could that be?  What could that be?  What could that be?  He's not only a minister of the Holy of Holies, or from the Holy of Holies, but He's also a minister of the true Tabernacle.  

While I was at the Throne . . .  Should I say that?  It's like this.  Let's see if you can find it in the Scripture.  Let's see if you can see this in symbol form.

"One foot on the land, one foot on the sea" . . .  Hebrews 8:2 is absolutely a picture of Revelation 10:1.  

He is a minister of the Sanctuary.  He ministers from the Holy of Holies, from the Throne of God, from the holiest place.  And He ministers of or from the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.  And honey, that ain't planet earth.

He's not talking about one foot in heaven and one foot in planet earth.  He's talking about one foot in heavenly realms, where revelation authority flows from, and one foot on us, really.  You know, that stretches almost - on us.

He not only ministers from the Holy of Holies, but He also ministers of and from the true Tabernacle of God, which the Lord pitched and not man.

The true Tabernacle of God which the Lord pitched is not Moses' Tabernacle.  

"Can you prove that?"  Absolutely.  Read who pitched it.  Read the Bible.  Go back and read the Book of Exodus and find out who pitched the Tabernacle of Moses - the people, the Levites, who unpacked it, who set it up ? men, who packed it up and packed it away, traveled away with it - men.  

"Who designed it?"  God.  "Who instituted it?"  God.  "But who pitched it?"  It didn't say who designed it.  It said, "Which the Lord pitched and not man."

Do you know who He's talking about?  Do you know what He's talking about?  He's talking about what Brother Branham was talking about at the end of his ministry when he preached that great little message, "What House Will Ye Build Me?"

You are the true Tabernacle that the Lord has pitched.  We are His Tabernacle.

Remember, the word "tabernacle" in Hebrew comes from the same root word of the "chuppah."  It's a pavilion.  It's a place to dwell.  It's a place to rest.  It's a place to reside.  It's a Throne to sit on.  Hallelujah.  

That's Jesus, that's Messiah - a minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle.  He ministers from heavenly places and from, and of, the Tabernacle that He has pitched in the earth.

Do you know what we can say?  We can say that He uses His true Tabernacle, the one that He has pitched, to reveal the secrets and the mysteries of the Sanctuary.  All that is in the Sanctuary is revealed how?  By the true Tabernacle, that the Lord has pitched in the earth, through the foolishness of preaching, visions, dreams, revelations, words, inspirations, and so forth.  

If you've got an ear to hear, you're receiving a New Testament Bible school lesson.  
(I'm closing.  I really am.)

If we miss the Throne in the Book of the Revelation, we have missed God's emphasis.  He was not emphasizing plagues, hailstones and big-teethed creatures.  He was emphasizing the Throne.

Man fixates on what man is most curious and interested in.  So that's what we read.  That's why we're scared of it.  

Have you ever been asked?  Let me close with this.  (Oh, I love it.  Hallelujah.)   Well, I had a lot here to say.  I could go back.  We are living every day to be an expression of Him.  We are the true Tabernacle that Messiah has pitched.  He now dwells in us by His Spirit - not a physical building, no, but a Body, a Bride.  

We are pitched - which I could preach from the Greek word "pitched."  We are pitched as a corporate testimony of the Messiah.  We are representing Him and His will in the earth.  

And this is the last thing we're going to say and close.

In a message called "The Token," Brother Branham said something so very powerful.  He told us what the Message is.  If you've ever been asked, "Well, what is the Message?" hold up your hand.  Have you ever been asked that question, "What is the Message?"  Hold up your hand if you've ever been asked the question, "What is the Message?"

Well, some of you must have never even told people that you believed in anything called a Message because that is one of the first questions that people ask after they've observed you or overheard you using the term, "The Message."  

I've been asked thousands of times.  "Well, what is the Message?"

Well, I normally answer, "It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.  That's what the Message is."  

But that's not satisfying, you know.  "Do you mean the Book of the Revelation?"

"No.  The full revelation of the Lord Jesus - who He is and His attributes and what He wants to, you know, do through us and adoption."  And you just start talking along these lines.

Do you know what most people believe the Message is out there when they hear the Message?  They seem to tend to think it's getting a people to a prophet.  If we tell enough miracles that were performed in Brother Branham's life, then everybody will have confidence in Brother Branham.

"And do you know what they'll have?"  Confidence in Brother Branham.  But that's all.  That's all it'll do for them.  It'll do no more for them than your confidence in me as your pastor.  That's not enough.

You can tell about all the miracles and the visions, the commissionings and the calling and you can convince people that he was a man of God.  There's a whole lot of people out there now that are beginning to acknowledge that he is a man of God, or was a man of God, but does that mean they've grasped the Message?  I think not because they don't any more know what the Message is than most of the people who claim to be Message followers.

But I found it so strange that Brother Branham summed it up . . .  Here we are again.  Paul summed up for us the New Testament.

The sum of the New Testament basically, Paul said, is we have a High Priest who is sitting in a position to do something about what we're going through.  That's the revelation.  He's not just a High Priest, but He's in a position He can do something about being a High Priest.

He's not the Dalai Lama, who's been exiled from his own country and religion.  He can't serve and do the things that he believes he was called to do.  He can't even serve in his own country.  He's in exile.  He can't have full authority in Tibet if he can't live in Tibet.  Right?  

I want you to know, we have a High Priest.  We have a Holy Man who has not been dethroned or deposed or exiled.  He is not only our High Priest, but He is in exactly the right position to serve you as a High Priest.  He's at the Throne.  Glory.  Hallelujah.  

And I got it pretty straight.  You read the Book of Revelation, you find out.  What was before the Throne when John was taken from the Isle of Patmos in the Spirit to the Throne?  What did he see?"  

The first thing he mentions is a Throne.  Right?  Revelation 4:1.  He mentions a Throne.  Of course,  already, while in Patmos, he gets in the Spirit and he sees the Ancient of Days like Daniel saw him.

But when he's carried into heaven . . . Revelation 4:1 and 2, 3, 4, 5 talks about coming up higher, he moves from the earthly realm of Patmos into the heavenly realm . . . the first thing he sees is a Throne.

And he sees red and amber colors - sardine stones - this color emanating from the Throne.  And what is the next thing he sees?  Four Living "Theron" or Beasts, Creatures.

They're not like wild animals.  They're Creatures.

Can I give you a real thing that you might be able to get a hold of?  They're Cherubims.  They're Cherubims.  They're angels.  They're special angels.  

It's not the first time they ever showed up.  They were engraven . . . woven into the curtains of the Temple.

They sat on the Mercy Seat - two of them (right?), two Cherubims on the Mercy Seat.  What did the Mercy Seat represent?  The Throne.  Is that right?  

Why is it that God would have had Moses to place two Cherubims on the Mercy Seat?  Because that's what Moses saw before the Throne.  

If you need a quote, Brother Branham said, "These four Living Creatures are the guardians of the Throne."  (Way too much for one night, isn't it?)  They guard the Throne.

They once guarded the Ark of the Covenant, the earthly representation and symbol of the Throne, because Moses saw them guarding the heavenly Throne.

Can I tell you something?  Who would be better positioned to tell us what has happened at the Throne than the guardians of the Throne?"  

Now when you go out of here and say you didn't learn anything, you didn't get anything, and you already knew all this, and what you didn't know was too confusing to get, just remember, you have a promise.

You have a promise.  "There'll be three visions.  When that third vision takes place, you will come back and teach the people with a revelation to stand before the Throne of God."

We marveled when the third vision took place and I was carried by the Spirit into heavenly realms.  And people start e-mailing and say, "Hey, where is the teaching?  Where is the lesson?  Where . . .?  How do we get there?"

I didn't know.  I only know what I see and hear.  I didn't understand in January when the four Living Creatures showed up in a vision and said, "I have an appointment with you in Jerusalem."  

At that moment, the fact that they were the guardians of the Throne was the last thought in my mind.  But in "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" series and in the . . . of course, in the Church Age book, Brother Branham said, "Those four Living Creatures are the guardians of the Throne."

Nobody is getting to the Throne, nobody is going to get to the Throne . . .  Then why do you want to get there?  So that you can get down and kiss His feet?  Well, that'll be nice.

But when you get through doing that, you really ought to get up and receive some impartation of who you are in Christ, because guess what Brother Branham said . . .

(Oh, my.  I'm so sorry.  It's midnight.  You couldn't . . . you couldn't concentrate at midnight.)  

Guess what Brother Branham said in "The Token"?  He said, "That is the Message."

"What?  What?  What is the Message?"  I'll tell you later.

"What is the Message?"  He said (I love ya), "That is the Message - to come into Christ."  That's the Message - to come into Christ.  That's the Message.

"It's too simple.  That can't be the Message.  That couldn't be the Message.  It's too simple - to come into Christ.  Paul said that.  It couldn't be the Message - to come into Christ."

That's what he said - in "The Token," in "The Token," in "The Token," mind you.  In "The Token" he said, "That is the Message - to come into Christ."

You thought the Message was "serpent seed."  You thought the Message was "hell - explaining hell and about hell."  You thought the Message was "the Seven Seals revealed."  And you thought the Message was learning about the Church Ages, the messengers.  You thought the Message was this and that and the other, and Sunset, and Jeffersonville . . .

And we thought all of this was the Message.  And what we didn't understand was we had to go all the way back to the Garden of Eden, in the beginning, and learn some things.  And God had to bring us by a prophet who had been before the Throne.

"How do you think Brother Branham knew who those four Living Creatures were?"  Of course he had had interaction with them.  They're guardians of the Throne.  Nobody gets to the Lord without passing by them.  Of course he had heavenly experiences and revelations, and angels came to him.  

And all that we know about in a Message . . .  ("The sum of it all is we have a High Priest," Paul said.)  "The sum of it all is to come into Christ."  That's the sum of it all - to come into Christ.  That's why we have to spend time in the Throne - because we're coming into Christ.

The musicians are coming.

"I can't do it.  I can't do it.  I won't make it.  I don't get it.  I don't understand it.  I won't be able to do it."

You don't understand.  Those who have stood before the Throne for thousands of years are available.  Those who should know more about how to get to the Throne than anybody else, those who have guarded the Throne for eons of time, they still exist.

The four Living Creatures are not just a symbol of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  They're not just a symbol of four anointings that were divided over the ages.  They're more than that.  They're the guardians of the Throne.

Christ is seated with His Father in His Throne.  You, as an overcomer, have been invited to sit with Christ in His Throne as He is set down with His Father in His Throne.

In order to get to that place in Christ, you have to get where Christ is.  In the Spirit, Christ is with us here tonight.  Positionally, governmentally, He's in the Throne.  So if we're going to get into Christ, we're going to have to come to the Throne.

And if we're going to do that, we're going to need some help.  We're going to need an overcoming anointing because "only overcomers," he said, "make it that far."  Wow.  

I told you Sunday (was a week ago) their ministry is not over.  The ministry of the four Living Creatures is not over.  It's not finished.  They're still guarding the Throne.  Only overcomers will get that close.  

And the very Spirit that they represent is what has caused the Bride to overcome down through the ages.  Remember?  The Ox Age . . .  Remember?  

Let's stand.

Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Our brains will be on overload here.  Hallelujah.

Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, wonderful Lord.  Hallelujah.

Open Your Word to us.  Open Your Word to us, oh God.  Hallelujah, hallelujah . . .  Thank You, Jesus.  Thank You, wonderful Savior.  Thank You, thank You . . . Lord.  Hallelujah.  We love You tonight.

Let's just love Him a minute.  "We love You tonight, Lord.  We worship You.  Our bodies and minds are tired, but You're God.  You're God, You're God . . . and You have an appointment with us.  Redemption's work is finished.  

It's not about what we can do.  It's about what we let You do through us, in us, for us.  The Message is - to come into Christ.

If we come into Christ, we're overcomers because You were an Overcomer.  If You rule and reign the nations, if we come into You, we rule and reign the nations.  If You're One with the Father and we come into You, we're one with the Father.  

No wonder You are called in Scripture "our Elder Brother, our Forerunner, the One who has gone before us to clear the way, to make the path, to open up the door, to lay the foundation, to pay the price."  

We love You, Lord.  We love You . . . Lord.

(Singing:)  "Into Thy chamber be free Holy Spirit . . ."

Let's come for just a moment.  I know it's late.

". . . Speak to me gently as I close the door.
Heavenly lover let Thy Presence cover.
Shekinah unending is all I long for."

Come into Christ.  Come into the Messiah.  

David was anointed three times.  There's three anointings that bring us in.  It's the third anointing, the anointing of the Mashiach, Christos in the New Testament, the Messiah, the Anointed One . . .  It's the one that speaks with implication of being rubbed in.
  
That's the one that brings us.  It invites us.  In fact, in Scripture, it invites us to come over.

Watch this.  If that anointing is the anointing that invites us to come over, what does that mean?  When you come over?  Like crossing over - you come over something?  

You want to turn that around?  When you come over, what do you do?  You overcome.  

So all the theme that the Lord's been giving us - "you've got to get across the Jordan, you've got to conquer the land, you've got to come over, you've got to cross over" - you turn it around and it's exactly the same theme, exactly the same Message from the Throne - "Overcome."

Lord, we want it.  We know it's ours.  We know it's ours.  And we know how it's going to come.  It's going to come by impartation from Your Word and Your Spirit.  It's not going to come because we have worked to get it, but we just yielded.

We yielded.  We put forth every effort to hear Your Word and to receive it - not into our brains, but into our spirits, into our souls.  Let Your Word filter down into the depth of our being, and let it click.

Lord, let us receive that divine click that tells us, "That's me.  That's me.  I'm the one.  He's preaching about me.  I am identified in that.  That's my destiny.  That's my heritage.  That's where I've come from, and that's where I'm going back to."

Remember, the prophet said, "The spear went in His side.  Blood and water ran out."  The blood represented redemption, the price that was to be paid.  He said, "The water represented His Bride."

He went on to say, "We were separated from Christ at Calvary."  And where are we going now?  Into Christ.  And if we were separated from Christ at Calvary, and we're going back into Christ . . .

We're going back.  I preached some years ago, "We're going back in the same way we came out.  It's going to be a narrow way."  It's going to be a narrow way.  But God is going to do the work.  It's ours.  Hallelujah.

Join hands with somebody.

Lord, strengthen Your people tonight.  Lord, give us eyes to see and ears to hear.  Anoint our eyes with holy eyesalve.  Give us revelation from the Throne.  Let it drop from our heads to our hearts.  Though it can sometimes sound complicated, let it come into our being, our inner being, with simplicity and clarity as we refocus, as we take time to let it digest.

Lord, give us grace to digest this simple Word, "Come into Christ.  Come into Christ.  Come into Christ."  That's the Message - "Come into Christ."

God, I pray that You will help us not to get in this pulpit and preach over and over and over again . . .  Not me, Lord . . .  And please help these other brothers to catch the same understanding and revelation that it is not work.  If it was work, we can't do it.  We can't make it.  We couldn't work hard enough.  We couldn't fight hard enough.  

It's faith.  We believe You.  We take You at your Word, and we watch You manifest Your Word in us.

Sure, we need to sacrifice.  Sure, we need to set priorities in our life.  But there is no way in the world that we could make ourselves worthy, or make ourselves recipients of what You have made so readily and easily available to us tonight.

Let somebody's soul catch on fire with the revelation that we are coming into Christ.  He has invited us and we have accepted His invitation.  He is sending angels to announce our destiny, to pour upon us overcoming anointing for this hour.  He has four Living Creatures that minister day and night before His Throne.

He stands positionally placed with a foot in the Sanctuary and a foot in His earthly Tabernacle.  He is a bridge.  You are a bridge, Lord, between this earthly realm and the heavenly realm.  And we are in You.  Therefore our access to the Throne has been made secure.

And we trust in that.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Thank You that You've called us to be forerunners and overcomers.  You've told us to come over, and we're coming over by the grace of Almighty God, following the Pillar of Fire over, just like we did when You brought us out of Egypt.  Blessed be the holy Name of the Lord.

Strengthen Your people.  Bind the hand of the enemy.  We rebuke sickness and disease and infirmity and pain and aches and symptoms.  In the Name of Yeshua we release the healing of the Lord, His virtue that has been promised for healing.  It's children's bread.

We take the children's bread home with us tonight, and we eat on it.  And we take it into us - the Bread of Healing.  Hallelujah, hallelujah . . .

You don't love the children of Israel any more than You love us today.  And You let them eat manna.  The prophet of God said that manna was angels' food.  The prophet of God said that manna was the food that angels ate.

You don't love the children of Israel any more than You love Your Bride today.  Feed us, Lord.  Let us eat angels' food.  Let us eat manna that has been stored up for us in this hour.  Let it transform us into that kind of a man or a woman that can just believe You.

Hallelujah.   We just believe You.  We just take You at Your Word.  

Bless this Your people.  Bless them abundantly.  Open the windows of heaven and bless them.  Bless them financially, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.  Bless them financially, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.  Emotionally and physically and spiritually . . .

We walk in these promises.  In the wonderful Name of Yeshua, the Lord Jesus Christ, we pray.  Amen and amen.

It's almost ten o'clock.  The hour is very late.

Please love one another.